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...Michelle A. Stephens Duke University Press 2007 Creole America: The West Indies and the Formation of Literature and Culture in the New Republic . By Sean X. Goudie. Philadelphia: Univ. of Pennsylvania Press. 2006. 275 pp. $55.00. Reworlding America: Myth, History...

... is particularly illuminating. Chapter three examines the Théâtre Marigny and the Théâtre de la Renaissance, two lesser-known venues founded by free black Creoles. Braun’s careful research shows how this population, alienated from the city’s main theaters, responded by staging dramas that imagined communities...

...Carrie Hyde Hyde reassesses the relationship between natural and civil rights by tracking the climatological metaphors that shape representations of the 1841 slave revolt aboard the Creole , in which 135 slaves obtained freedom by redirecting a US ship to the British territory of Nassau, Bahamas...

...Shawn Salvant Duke University Press 2007 Ghosts of Slavery: A Literary Archaeology of Black Women's Lives . By Jenny Sharpe. Minneapolis: Univ. of Minnesota Press. 2003. xxvi, 187 pp. Cloth, $60.00; paper, $20.00. Creole Crossings: Domestic Fiction and the Reform of Colonial...

...Carrie Hyde Atlantic Creoles in the Age of Revolutions . By Landers Jane G. . Cambridge : Harvard Univ. Press : 2010 . x, 340 pp. $29.95 . The American Slave Narrative and the Victorian Novel . By Lee Julia Sun-Joo . New York : Oxford Univ. Press . 2010 . viii, 192...

... in such a regionalist, Caribbean American imaginary, specifically Jamaican Creole healer and boarding-house operator Mary Seacole and the Eurasian writer Sui Sin Far. Although from distinct epochs and locations, Seacole and Sui Sin Far—as migrant laboring women of color in the Caribbean American region—are affected...

... at L’Union (a bilingual, Black Creole weekly in New Orleans). These examples reveal the practical language of editorship expressed through serial formats. By reading editing on its own terms, in the patterns of established formats and formal innovations, it becomes possible to envision the broader study...

... (1880)—a text that constantly signals its own inability to reproduce the speech and music of New Orleans's Afro-Creole community—in order to illustrate the growing sense among late-nineteenth-century U.S. writers that the written word was fundamentally inadequate as a sound archive. The second half...

... representations of obeah, a creole religion practiced by enslaved persons in the British Caribbean, arguing that such narratives use religious experience to craft an alternative transnationalism. Works such as William Earle’s 1800 novel Obi; or, The History of Three-Fingered Jack and similar chapbooks, penny...

... these ideas in his only novella, “The Heroic Slave” (1853), in which Madison Washington, leader of the 1841 Creole mutiny, declares his independence in a forest glade that functions as a chapel of natural rights. This kind of radical republican pastoralism also shapes My Bondage, My Freedom (1855...

...Thomas F. Haddox Duke University Press 2002 Thomas F. The ‘‘Nous’’ of Southern Catholic Haddox Quadroons: Racial, Ethnic, and Religious Identity in Les Cenelles In 1845 a group of seventeen free Creoles of color in New Orleans published Les...

...—born of creolization’s complex balancing acts and New World transformations. Her grounding in the creole history, culture, and landscapes of Florida fed her efforts to muddy the water of national, disciplinary, and psychic boundaries, reopening the coastal South to an Oya-swept muck of Caribbean...

... of Douglass and Melville,” 217–46. Hyde, Carrie. “The Climates of Liberty: Natural Rights in the Creole Case and ‘The Heroic Slave 475–504. Jagoda, Patrick, Tara McPherson, and Wendy H. K. Chun. “Preface: New Media and American Literature,” 615–28. Jagoda, Patrick. “Fabulously Procedural: Braid...

... Book Reviews  623 Creole America: The West Indies and the Formation of Literature and Culture in the New Republic. By Sean X. Goudie. Philadelphia: Univ. of Pennsylvania Press. 2006. 275 pp. $55.00. Reworlding America: Myth, History, and Narrative. By John Muthyala. Athens: Ohio...

... Book Reviews  623 Creole America: The West Indies and the Formation of Literature and Culture in the New Republic. By Sean X. Goudie. Philadelphia: Univ. of Pennsylvania Press. 2006. 275 pp. $55.00. Reworlding America: Myth, History, and Narrative. By John Muthyala. Athens: Ohio...

... Book Reviews  623 Creole America: The West Indies and the Formation of Literature and Culture in the New Republic. By Sean X. Goudie. Philadelphia: Univ. of Pennsylvania Press. 2006. 275 pp. $55.00. Reworlding America: Myth, History, and Narrative. By John Muthyala. Athens: Ohio...

... criticism. Peter Kvidera, John Carroll University DOI 10.1215/00029831-2007-028 Book Reviews  623 Creole America: The West Indies and the Formation of Literature and Culture in the New Republic. By Sean X. Goudie. Philadelphia: Univ...

... Book Reviews  623 Creole America: The West Indies and the Formation of Literature and Culture in the New Republic. By Sean X. Goudie. Philadelphia: Univ. of Pennsylvania Press. 2006. 275 pp. $55.00. Reworlding America: Myth, History, and Narrative. By John Muthyala. Athens: Ohio...

... Book Reviews  623 Creole America: The West Indies and the Formation of Literature and Culture in the New Republic. By Sean X. Goudie. Philadelphia: Univ. of Pennsylvania Press. 2006. 275 pp. $55.00. Reworlding America: Myth, History, and Narrative. By John Muthyala. Athens: Ohio...

... Book Reviews  623 Creole America: The West Indies and the Formation of Literature and Culture in the New Republic. By Sean X. Goudie. Philadelphia: Univ. of Pennsylvania Press. 2006. 275 pp. $55.00. Reworlding America: Myth, History, and Narrative. By John Muthyala. Athens: Ohio...